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This must be fake, it cannot be true. Otherwise it's a war declaration to our freedom.
And you retards think your gonna seperate money and state from your iphone BTFO. Pathetic. NGU is all you care about get real
Maybe dont have a proprietary POS computer? Its always been like this. Have yoh been paying attention
Bruh I would switch to dumb phone or something. Homeless people living more free I guess. Hmm
They implemented a trojan without asking you on your phone. Not sure if doing this isn't a crime like breaking into your house without permission. You paid for your phone and not your government. Tell them that they can GFY on the juristic way other look for other solutions
For real?
Were these people also stupid enough to install the NHS or HMRC app or some other gov nonsense.
How do you secretly add an app? I call bullshit
It looks like this mostly happening with iPhones, so maybe it's another agreement between the U.K government and Apple.
Thanks. Exactly what I was wondering. A certain brand etc. Tim Cook should be castrated if true.
⚡️🇬🇧 UPDATE - Users now reporting the GOV.UK ID Check app installing on phones without consent (screenshots below).
View quoted note →If only you knew the apps they installed that don't show up. 😉
0-Clicks.
Is there a source other than the app store?
But there’s a bit on the post that says ‘testimony’ it even has an emoji next to it so it must be true…
Source?
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Hmm what if Mr Spazzy did it himself?
Still doesn’t prove anything, surely a botnet could do this?
If it were written in a mainstream media outlet, you would be confident about the accuracy of the information 🙃
Smartphone are no more Decentralised
You are using it but not in your control..
#nostr #asknostr
No, if I could find ANY source that wasn’t Facebook…
I’ll keep searching and will be critical until I find something more substantial.
Or maybe you could add sources? Appreciate you’re only here to ‘Flash’ things but this requires some investigation, something which I’ve been unable to find in the last 15 mins or so. It may well exist, I’m certainly not ruling it out but when your original post contains a section labelled ‘testimony’ with no source I’m going to be sceptical.
This isn’t me trusting the government m8 lol. It’s me not trusting anyone.
If they provided a source it would become obvious they are copy pasting from X
This is a testament to the internet: people don't necessarily contact a media outlet owned by a billionaire to verify information. If you follow Flash, you know that I include a link to the source in 90% of my posts, except when I'm too far ahead of them, as is the case here. I'll let you follow me from a distance.
We all all know that anyway…
I mean Apple do have form for this, I remember losing my shit because they put a U2 album in my iTunes without consent. I’m still unsure which of these is worse lol.
For every bad government action there is at least the same amount of random bullshit someone else is pushing for reasons.
The UK gov app has been around for a couple of years now, (which I only just learned). The incentive to randomly put it on phones just after refusing a large petition seems off. The comments in the App Store read like the sort of comments people make after being rage baited on X.
Not ruling anything out AND remaining sceptical of click bait bollocks.
Top rebuttal…
Indeed, there are many INDEPENDENT cybersecurity writers out there and yet at this point the only source I find that matches what you’re saying comes from Facebook.
Happy to read that you, a single entity, are beating 90% of the world at bring useful information to Nostr. Keep up the work.
I'm sorry to hear that you still have Facebook. I can't confirm your statement, as I don't have that piece of crap owned by META.
No, I said the only source is Facebook, it’s a closed system that I can’t access, I’m going from search results.
Your line of argument isn’t helping much, you don’t seem very interested in providing any evidence for your claims. I remain open minded but this exchange isn’t filling me with much confidence that you actually know stuff and are not just scrolling other platforms for BREAKING posts.
Oh well..,
I'll let you draw your own conclusions, and I invite you to continue monitoring the
@FLASH account without following it, without missing a beat.
This exists, as it’s becoming mandatory for company directors to verify their ID via biometrics by the end of November 2025, but it hasn’t installed without my consent on my phone at least. I didn’t install it, but did it at the post office, which still required my biometrics.
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wtf
Seems like bollocks so far… spent a bit of time looking into it this morning, appears to originate from a Facebook post.
Happy to be corrected if I’m wrong…
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Switch to Graphene OS.
FLASH
⚡️⚠️🇬🇧 ALERT - Check your phones.
The British government is installing apps on your phone without you even knowing.
This app 'Gov UK ID check' has been randomly showing up on people's phones without them installing it
Apparently, it is an authenticator app that the UK government has now re branded as a digital ID app and has secretly added it to millions of devices❗️
🗣️ Testimony : If you can see the “GOV-UK ID check” app, you might want to remove the app. It appeared overnight on my phone automatically
If you didn't at least degoogle your phone with Lineage, e/Os or Graphene you are a tool and a fool. This also applies to Apple of course.
Here is what the Britain is broken account claims.
Brits need to do what Nepal did.
Just curious, does this occur even if you don't have Google on your phone? I uninstalled all Google services and blocked them with a firewall on mine.
Degoogled should be ok? This is theoretically happens through Play Store & it's services. I'm not a security expert though.
I do have a secondary phone that runs GrapheneOS for anything I want to be more secure FWIW
You got a point for sure
